George and Blue Boar Inn
Names
- George and Blue Boar Inn
- George Inn
- George and Dragon
- the George
Street/Area/District
- High Holborn
Maps & Views
- 1741–5 London, Westminster, Southwark & 10 miles round (Rocque): George Inn
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): George Inn
Descriptions
from London Signs, by Bryant Lillywhite (1972)
449 George and Blue Boar Inn Holborn a combined Sign of The George Inn No. 6966, and The Blue Boar Inn No. 3646. c1770s–1864. In 1866 Inns of Court Hotel occupied the site.
6966 George Inn Holborn south side; George and Dragon “in George yard Holborn” c1648–60s; 1746.
from the Grub Street Project (2006–present)
The George Inn. The inn was a stopping place for the condemned in the procession from Newgate Prison to the gallows at Tyburn, famously described in Swift's poem "Clever Tom Clinch Going to be Hanged" (1726):
As clever Tom Clinch, while the Rabble was bawling,
Rode stately through Holbourn, to die in his Calling;
He stopt at the George for a Bottle of Sack,
And promis'd to pay for it when he'd come back.
Shown in Strype's Survey of London, Westminster, and Southwark (1720 and Rocque's Plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark (1746).